Serious Work Quotes

23 quotes by 22 authors

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work. — Charles E. Burchfield
I see no difference between my pictures that people consider amusing and the rest. To me, it's all serious work - they're just a reaction… — Elliott Erwitt
Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.... — Jacqueline Bisset
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I… — George Orwell
One thing I did not want to change, even if we got serious, work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis. We all had… — Yvon Chouinard
Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and… — Herodotus
Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute; you can barely… — Kelly Corrigan
In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous… — Philippe Halsman
Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?' — Freeman Patterson
Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose.… — Kieron Gillen
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more… — Richard Diebenkorn
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the… — Benjamin Franklin
Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction.… — Joyce Carol Oates
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a… — Colm Toibin
I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me… — James Joyce
I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is… — Vincent Van Gogh
Without great solitude no serious work is possible. — Pablo Picasso
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work. — Jeffrey Brown
He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the… — Sallust

Who Wrote These Serious Work Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 23 Serious Work Quotes as follows: